觀無量壽佛經疏 4.22

4.22

Question: 'Suppose people of differing understanding and practice, or of corrupt and mixed views, come to mislead and confuse, or raise various doubts and objections, saying that one cannot attain rebirth; or say: "You sentient beings, through your bodily, verbal, and mental karma from kalpas without beginning down to this present life, have fully committed against all ordinary beings and sages the ten evil acts, the five heinous sins, the four grave offenses, slandering the Dharma, icchantika acts, breaking the precepts, breaking right views, and other sins, and have not yet eliminated them completely. These sins are bound to the evil realms of the three realms. How could you, by cultivating merit and reciting the Buddha['s name] in a single lifetime, enter into that land of no outflows and no birth, and forever attain awakening and the stage of non-retrogression?"'